Gardening, landscaping and plants in general

[endo]

ants harvesting aphids (I assume) on my roses, need to spray them

[endo]

all is blooming

[motojobobo]

In the middle of a sweaty day in my hickory bibs while laying down grass tiles (?) around my yard.

Somehow my yard has sunk/eroded some 20 cm over 19 years and rain water collects right around the building perimeter.
So I’m adding sand and black soil with an outward slant before laying the grass slabs on top.

[Subprime]

The bees are stoked

[Mister_Brue]

@Subprime Beautiful Peony.

The roses are now in full swing.

[Mister_Brue]

[endo]

those are beautiful @Mister_Brue what are they?

[Mister_Brue]

@endo Nigella, or ‘Love-in-a-Mist’. They’re annuals, but they self seed with carefree abandon. They also come in these colours…

[ROman]

[GraemeE]

Technically did some crime today.....garden crime

Friends aunt sold her house to developers a few months ago and retired out of state.

Told us to plunder the gardens before they demolish and build condos - so we did

On load number 3 currently

[Boit]

I never post anything here. I’m new to gardening. Started this landscaping project in 2021 by putting 21 tons of boulder into my 40’ wide 5’ high E facing slope of my house. I’m in zone 9 (Seattle, WA) and trying to grow some stuff that is a little on the edge…with some success and some failures and some hard lessons learned. Here are a couple pics of what it now looks like now in my 4th consecutive growing season.

[GraemeE]

@Boit that looks amazing

In addition to plants (obviously)I have boulder envy

[Mister_Brue]

@Boit Boulderado! It looks awesome. So you’re also gardening kerbside? I love that.

[Go For Chill]

@Boit This is killer! I’m loving it.

[Boit]

Thanks y’all for the kind words.

My wife and I rented a little excavator and dug out the holes for the rocks we picked out at https://marenakos.com/.

Marenakos was able to crane in all the rocks without disturbing the red buds in the parking strip.

Happy to have the upper slope retained now.

[endo]

Looks awesome @Boit

[Mister_Brue]

@Boit What an insane (in a good way) project. I can’t believe the size of some of those stones!

[ROman]

Current Lily's blooming.

[JDelage]

@Boit - Lovely work! I'm in Seattle too, between Volunteer Park & Interlaken on Cap Hill.

[Boit]

@JDelage Nice!

I lived on Cap Hill for 7 years prior to 2018. Love that neighborhood.

I’m in N.Ballard now…above GG and near Larson’s Bakery. Shoot me a DM if you’re over here and want to see my garden…or talk about IH or whatever.

@pechelman made the trek out here once. Glad to see more of us connecting in Seattle.

The other morning I was dropping my kiddo at Daycare and noticed another dad wearing IHs. Naturally, I complemented him on his jeans..and that wasn’t difficult to do. They looked amazing!

I’m hoping that we’ll get another retailer back in Seattle. Blue Owl seems like they would be THE store!